08/02, 7:35am

Apple Music app or iOS makes playback unnecessarily complex

In response to Jim Dalrymple's troubles with Apple Music and its problematic integration with iTunes, Marco Arment wrote a piece recently that provided a good explanation of why this seems to have reached a tipping point. While Arment highlighted a range of issues, one that he said he didn't want to get "started on" was the Apple Music iOS app. In the absence of Arment's views, I have put forward what my issues with the Apple Music app for iOS are here.

08/02, 3:03am

Written by staffers, learn how to blog and publish

If you've been following our Wednesday Pointers column over the last nine weeks, you'll know that the column on that day was devoted to documenting the process of writing a book, and then turning that manuscript into a real, buyable, out-in-the-world e-book and paperback. That book, William Gallagher's The Blank Screen: Blogging, is now available -- and an e-book version of the columns has also been created.